Season 20: Episode 16

Season 20: Episode 18

Gunsmoke (1955)

Season 20: Episode 17

The Fires of Ignorance

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Air Date:

2025-12-06

Genre

Western Action & Adventure Drama

Release Date

1955

End Date

1975

Episode Description

Henry Decory is a schoolteacher who makes a strong statement for compulsory education for frontier children as a stubborn father feels that books and education are a waste of time and tries to keep his son Tommy out of school.

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Cast

Woody Chambliss

Smoking Out the Nolans

General Parsley Smith

Professor Lute Bone

Reward for Matt

Tap Day for Kitty

How to Die for Nothing

Chester's Mail Order Bride

Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Alarm at Pleasant Valley

Brush at Elkader

Young Man with a Gun

How to Cure a Friend

Pucket's New Year

Sins of the Father

Chester's Murder

The Photographer

What the Whiskey Drummer Heard

Who Lives by the Sword

The Man Who Would Be Marshal

Liar from Blackhawk

Gun for Chester

Never Pester Chester

How to Kill a Woman

Sunday Supplement

Dooley Surrenders

Amy's Good Deed

Chester's Hanging

Overland Express

Matt for Murder

Letter of the Law

How to Kill a Friend

Robber Bridegroom

Gypsum Hills Feud

Marshal Proudfoot

Passive Resistance

Love of a Good Woman

Kitty's Rebellion

Change of Heart

There Was Never a Horse

Tail to the Wind

Miguel's Daughter

Till Death Do Us

Kitty's Killing

Unwanted Deputy

Where'd They Go

Colleen So Green

The Ex-Urbanites

The Lady Killer

Gentleman's Disagreement

The Bobsy Twins

Friend's Pay-Off

Shooting Stopover

The Peace Officer

Distant Drummer

Ben Tolliver's Stud

Love Thy Neighbor

Bless Me Till I Die

Long Hours, Short Pay

Chester's Dilemma

The Love of Money

Colorado Sheriff

Old Yellow Boots

Long, Long Trail

He Learned About Women

Chester's Indian

Quint Asper Comes Home

Blind Man's Bluff

Anybody Can Kill a Marshal

I Call Him Wonder

Daddy Went Away

The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

The Quest for Asa Janin

Legends Don't Sleep

My Sister's Keeper

Extradition (1)

Extradition (2)

Pa Hack's Brood

The Glory and the Mud

Comanches Is Soft

Now That April's Here

Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

Journey for Three

Take Her, She's Cheap

Jonah Hutchinson

Big Man, Big Target

Run, Sheep, Run

One Killer on Ice

Winner Take All

Thursday's Child

Dry Road to Nowhere

Twenty Miles from Dodge

Bad Lady from Brookline

The New Society

Seven Hours to Dawn

Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood

Ten Little Indians

Taps for Old Jeb

The Bounty Hunter

Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs

Killer at Large

My Father's Guitar

Honor Before Justice

Treasure of John Walking Fox

My Father, My Son

Parson Comes to Town

The Good People

Gunfighter, R.I.P.

The Whispering Tree

Champion of the World

Mistaken Identity

Ladies from St. Louis

Hard Luck Henry

Stranger in Town

The First People

A Noose for Dobie Price

The Hide Cutters

The Miracle Man

The Money Store

The Twisted Heritage

Time of the Jackals

The Mark of Cain

The Night Riders

The Good Samaritans

The Devil's Outpost

A Man Called Smith

A Matter of Honor

Ring of Darkness

Doctor Herman Schultz, M.D.

Sam McTavish, M.D.

The Noon Day Devil

New Doctor in Town

My Brother's Keeper

Gold Train: The Bullet (1)

Gold Train: The Bullet (2)

Gold Train: The Bullet (3)

P.S. Murry Christmas

One for the Road

Blind Man's Buff

Alias Festus Haggin

Arizona Midnight

A Quiet Day in Dodge

This Golden Land

Women for Sale (1)

Women for Sale (2)

Matt's Love Story

The Boy and the Sinner

The Widow-Maker

Kitty's Love Affair

The Widow and the Rogue

A Game of Death...An Act of Love (1)

A Game of Death...An Act of Love (2)

The Hanging of Newly O'Brien

The Deadly Innocent

The Child Between

A Family of Killers

The Town Tamers

The Iron Blood of Courage

Trail of Bloodshed

Cowtown Hustler

To Ride a Yeller Horse

Matt Dillon Must Die

The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)

The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)

Thirty a Month and Found

The Fourth Victim

The Tarnished Badge

In Performance of Duty

Island in the Desert (1)

Island in the Desert (2)

The Fires of Ignorance

Brides and Grooms

I Have Promises to Keep

The Sharecroppers

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